Festo Kivengere famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.
-- Festo Kivengere

#Heart #Practice #Grace

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.
According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

Festo Kivengere famous quotes

You may also like: